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Harpel's typograph, or Book of specimens; containing useful information, suggestions and a collection of examples of letterpress job printing arranged for the assistance of master printers, amateurs, apprentices, and others

by: Harpel, Oscar H. (Oscar Henry), 1828-1881

Publication date: 1870

Topics: Letterpress printing

Publisher: Cincinnati, The author

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Part of plates printed on both sides. The sequence of 7 leaves with plates numbered 1-11 are pictorial wood engravings. The folded plate following p. 48 is a "Composition in Stigmatypie by M. Fasol, of Vienna."

Includes index

Includes [11] p. of advertising matter at end

Bound in brown goatskin, the boards stamped in black. Gilt ornament at center of front cover, with legend: C.H. Fairbanks, Practical Typographist. Gilt ornament on back reads: Harpel's Typograph